Word: mexicanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Major General Benjamin D. Foulois, 87, pioneer U.S. military aviator, who soloed in 1910 in a Wright Brothers plane ("It was my first takeoff, first landing and first crack-up"), was the first to fly combat against Pancho Villa along the Mexican border in 1916, first to fly more than 100 miles nonstop, first to operate a radio in flight, first to command the fledgling U.S. Air Service First Army in World War I and, before retiring in 1935, the man who selected the Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress to fill U.S. needs for a long-range bomber...
Late in November of 1913, Ambrose Bierce, 71, afflicted with asthma and rue, crossed the border into Mexico. He had declared a journalist's interest in the Mexican revolution and planned to seek out Pancho Villa. Around Christmas Day that year, he sent a letter home from Chihuahua City. It was the last that anyone heard from Ambrose Bierce. He vanished...
Mavericks & Machismo. Bravo vivified the "Viva Kennedy!" drive in 1960, which helped win the state for the Democrats against Native Son Richard Nixon. And in 1966, it was Bravo who led the defection from Democrat Pat Brown's camp: Ronald Reagan drew 24% of Los Angeles' Mexican-American vote, thus tripling the usual G.O.P. total. Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel does even better in Latin neighborhoods, thanks to his excellent command of Spanish. But the man who wins Mexican-American backing most consistently and heartily is Democrat Sam Yorty, whose maverick manner as mayor of Los Angeles appeals...
...Nava defeats Smoot in the May 31 runoff, he will become the first Mexican-American ever to sit on the city school board. That, for the pocho, would be a major step from self-pity toward self-representation...
...Harvard recently, Conyers made a prepared speech proposing a coalition of the nation's disadvantaged groups -- Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Mexican-Americans, and migrant farm laborers -- and called for aid from sympathetic intellectuals. But he spent most of his time meeting with students and Afro-American Students. And even to those Negroes at Harvard who have come -- quite understandably in the past few years -- to believe that politics is not the final solution, he came off well...